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Also called booking agent, corporate travel agent, leisure travel agent and tour agent.
$50,160
Median pay a year
55,110
People do this work
6
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Travel Agent
Summary
Travel agent planning and selling transportation and accommodations for clients, determining destinations, travel dates, and costs while arranging itineraries and resolving travel issues
Experience
Travel Agent
Where you worked
Month Year to Month Year
Planned, described, arranged, and sold itinerary tour packages and promotional travel incentives for various travel carriers
Conversed with customers to determine destination, mode of transportation, travel dates, financial considerations, and required accommodations
Computed cost of travel and accommodations using calculator, computer, carrier tariff books, and hotel rate books
Recorded and maintained information on clients, vendors, and travel packages
Booked transportation and hotel reservations using computer or telephone
Printed or requested transportation carrier tickets using computer printer system or system link to travel carrier
Collected payment for transportation and accommodations from customers
Skills
Core Skills
Retrieving information from sources, Gathering customer information, Calculating costs of goods or services, Recording travel details, Preparing sales contracts, Distributing promotional materials, Processing sales transactions, Amadeus CRS, Microsoft Access, Selling products or services
Tools and software
Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office software, Microsoft Outlook, Sabre Central Command
Education
Certificate Your training program, Year
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Collected payments for transportation and accommodationsPlanned and sold itinerary tour packagesConversed with customers to determine travel needsComputed costs of travel and accommodationsRecorded and maintained client and vendor informationBooked transportation and hotel reservations
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Collected payments for transportation and accommodations, ensuring accurate financial transactions
Conversed with customers to determine travel needs and preferences, providing tailored travel solutions
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Collected payments daily for multiple clients, ensuring accurate financial transactions
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Daily for multiple clientsSeveral times each weekRegularly for various bookings
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Conversed with customers to determine travel needs and preferences, providing tailored travel solutions
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Made their travel planning easierHelped them find better dealsIncreased their satisfaction with trips
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Retrieving information from sources
Gathering customer information
Calculating costs of goods or services
Recording travel details
Preparing sales contracts
Selling products or services
Distributing promotional materials
Processing sales transactions
The work itself
What a Travel Agent does
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Plan and sell transportation and accommodations for customers. Determine destination, modes of transportation, travel dates, costs, and accommodations required. May also describe, plan, and arrange itineraries and sell tour packages. May assist in resolving clients' travel problems.
What it pays
How much does a Travel Agent make?
Annual pay across the United States. The middle figure is the median: half earn less than that, and half earn more.
25th percentile
$41,950
Median
$50,160
75th percentile
$63,060
About 55,110 people do this work in the United States.
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This page is about the occupation Travel Agents. What this job involves and what it is made of come from O*NET 30.3, the US Department of Labor's occupation database, refreshed July 2026; Rung writes those records into the plain sentences you see. Pay comes from the Bureau of Labor Statistics OEWS release for 2025. Rung is an independent service and is not affiliated with or endorsed by either agency. How Rung handles accuracy is on the accuracy page, and the full data credits are on the credits page.